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Check out a slideshow of the protest.
At least 100 staff, students, alumni and music fans from Rice University, the University of Houston and Rice's student-run radio station KTRU gathered on the Rice campus this afternoon to protest the sale of the...

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Fans of more grown-up R&B -- the kind that usually hinges on actual music and real soul as opposed to synthesized computer beats -- are in for a treat Saturday at Toyota Center when the Budweiser Superfest returns. In its original incarnation, Superf...

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Even without Joe Ely -- who will be along in October, with Jerry Jeff Walker at the Arena Theatre -- two-thirds of the Flatlanders means two of the greatest songwriters ever to stride the Great High Plains. An evening at the Mucky Duck with the two L...

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Ahard-knock life? Eh, not so much. In stark contrast to so many of his fellow Brooklyn-born MCs, Talib Kweli was raised by two university-professor parents and spent part of his childhood in a posh Connecticut boarding school. As such, matters of Afr...

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Saturday, The American Heist lets loose their self-titled debut LP, with a little help from death-punks Hell City Kings, trad-punks Blackmarket Syndicate and organ-y upstarts All At Sea. Since their formation a few years back, Heist has gone through ...

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Rising from the ashes of the now-legendary Failure, Autolux has taken a virtual eternity between album releases. Prior to the brand-new Transit Transit, they had released only 2001 EP Demonstration and its 2004 follow-up Future Perfect. The long wait...

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Fans still feeling let down by the anemic, ho-hum ninth season of American Idol love to predict the show's demise, especially now that Simon Cowell is departing. But those people have short memories. You only have to look back to the previous season ...

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All of 24 years old, singer-songwriter Bobby Long owes his recent surge in popularity to about the most modern phenomenon there is. After striking up a friendship with actor and aspiring musician Robert Pattinson through various London open-mike nigh...

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Jon Wolfe calls his a "typical Nashville meat-grinder story." After having some success with his first album and hooking up with George Strait's nephew
Trey Strait as his manager, he decided to leave Houston and go for it in Nashville.
"Trey ha...

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Nightclubs close. It's a natural part of the cycle, as sure as the sun rising in the morning or a member of a boy band trying to go to outer space or outing himself a few years after his fame has waned.
(Note: That's a double-decker Lance Bass ref...

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Rocks Off does not have children, nor do we anticipate doing so anytime in the forseeable future. Frankly, the thought of being responsible for another living creature around the clock both terrifies and confounds us - just ask our cat, Neko.
Howeve...

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Courtney Love Is Not Having an Easy Time of It: First, the lawsuit involving Courtney's share of Nirvana's musical rights was settled, most likely for less than she wanted. We have a hard time mustering up any sympathy there, but even we get uncomfor...

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Since then, the squid-headed Cthulhu has gone on to be one of the most influential characters in modern horror, paid homage to by the likes of Stephen King, Neil Gaiman and Brian Lumley, and has also become a pop culture icon. For instance, he runs f...

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Rocks Off remembers the night in 2000 Blink-182 played the Woodlands with Bad Religion opening. Everyone came back to school the next day either wearing this garish yellow Blink shirt or the sacrilegious marked-out-cross shirt from Graffin and the cr...

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Gozer has designs on the Galleria.
Rice University and the University of Houston have reached a deal to convert KTRU into a 24-hour white-noise station to help our city's insomniacs. Fitzgerald's was just bought out by the guys who made Mango's a ...

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CBTT is considerably more than just an album taking shots at The Box - it is that, though. The Ban has effectively altered the trajectory of not only Trae's career, but also his entire outlook, which will have, and is already having, resounding effec...

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Former KTRU station manager Tag Borland
"Your frequency is gone."
It was a statement that certainly didn't make Rice alum and former KTRU Station Manager Tag Borland any friends on Thursday evening. But his pragmatic outlook is probably the most ...

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Fat Tony: Houston's Hot.
For more pictures from Thursday's Reduxion, see our slideshow here.
What if we threw a free show and nobody showed up?
Luckily, Rocks Off did not have to find that out at our first Reduxion at Walter's on Washington Thur...

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